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enWhat's Up? Some New LCD Displays Good For Photographyhttp://www.shutterbug.com/content/whatrsquos-some-new-lcd-displays-good-photography
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">For quite some time after the &ldquo;prints too dark&rdquo; problem erupted several years ago, there have been few LCD displays available ideally suited to doing digital photography computing. The first affordable break with this normality was the Dell Ultrasharp U2410 I reported on a few months ago.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks">David B. Brooks</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-issue-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tue, 06/21/2011</span></div></div></div>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:40:47 +0000Jon Iverson418166 at http://www.shutterbug.comA Computer For Digital Photographyhttp://www.shutterbug.com/content/computer-digital-photography
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.shutterbug.com/images/applepromoxxx.jpg" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-promo-image field-type-list-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Show Promo Image</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>First of all, what does a computer do? In our world today the word compute |kəmˈpyoōt| means to make a calculation, especially using a computer: modern circuitry can compute faster than any chess player. So is a photographic image made by a calculation of number values? Yes, to some extent with a digital camera. But graphics, an image on-screen was a side effect of computing, a part of the in and out communication with a computer. It was not what the computer did but how it communicated its answers after the question were typed into a computer with a keyboard. A monitor was just a convenient way to make a computer respond so its output could be read by human eyes.<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks">David B. Brooks</a></div></div></div>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:04:00 +0000sorcadmin378325 at http://www.shutterbug.com"Taking The Digital Out Of Digital Photography"http://www.shutterbug.com/content/taking-digital-out-digital-photography
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>What does the quoted title of this blog mean to you? Does it mean you as a photographer don’t really want to do photographs digitally, but do? Does it mean photographers using digital photography don’t understand what digital means? Or does it mean you need to buy a product that makes digital photography look like film photography?<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Sun, 22 May 2011 02:47:00 +0000sorcadmin378324 at http://www.shutterbug.comI Change My Mind Occasionallyhttp://www.shutterbug.com/content/i-change-my-mind-occasionally
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>I have gotten into numerous discussions about how to securely save digital image files. My method of using gold-gold CDR discs for this purpose has not altered, I have an established system so making a change would not serve me well. But the only alternative in the past I could recommend were then expensive RAID-1 mirrored hard drives. They are now affordable, so are a reasonable alternative. This came to my attention in a MacWorld report I received via e-mail, featuring a Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual mini 640 GB external drive for as little as $180.<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Tue, 17 May 2011 02:30:00 +0000sorcadmin378323 at http://www.shutterbug.comColorEyes Display EZ Hoodhttp://www.shutterbug.com/content/coloreyes-display-ez-hood
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.shutterbug.com/images/ezhood-complete.jpg" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>I don’t know about you, but I often relied on sunglasses, “shades” when I was driving west in the afternoon. They helped a lot to see the road clearly reducing the extraneous direct light from the sun obscuring my view. The same idea applies to your LCD display. If you keep it shaded from extraneous light in the room where your computer is set-up you will see the image on screen more clearly and free from different and conflicting strays of light. Even in my north-facing room that’s dedicated as my lab, even with special Fobsun LED lamps for my environment lighting, and with a hood protecting the screen, my new Dell Ultrasharp U2410 has a cleaner, brighter screen image now that it has shades.<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Tue, 10 May 2011 02:21:00 +0000sorcadmin378322 at http://www.shutterbug.comNew Epson R2000 Inkjet Photo Printerhttp://www.shutterbug.com/content/new-epson-r2000-inkjey-photo-printer
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.shutterbug.com/images/epsonr2000.jpg" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Almost every day I see announcements of new stuff, and I just pass along because it’s not anything I need. Better quality and more efficient printing of my images will stop me in my tracks. Specially when this new Epson R2000 is an improvement on the Epson R1900 the printer I use most.<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Tue, 03 May 2011 19:27:00 +0000sorcadmin378321 at http://www.shutterbug.comThe Best Is On Its Wayhttp://www.shutterbug.com/content/best-its-way
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.shutterbug.com/images/profiles-4-11.jpg" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The other day a reader was asking which brand/model display measuring device he should get, indicating he wanted the best. That was when I was getting the first news of X-Rites new iOne Pro line of color management tools. That’s the best of what the world’s largest color management company has to offer. But because only a few of my readers indicate they can afford the best regardless of cost, I usually do my work with tools the majority can afford. But this reader said I needed to do a shoot-out of all display color management makes and models. To me “shoot-outs” are just too deadly, so here I am settling for a little less.<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:58:00 +0000sorcadmin378320 at http://www.shutterbug.comIf You Have Eyes Believe In Themhttp://www.shutterbug.com/content/if-you-have-eyes-believe-them
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Besides photography I enjoy music and just saw an interesting documentary made for PBS called Music Instinct: Science and Song. It was about how the latest in scientific investigation using brain activity scans is indicating humans are wired for sound, that musicality is something that comes with being human. I think the same thing can be said about art, making pictures has been recorded as a human activity way back in pre-history with cave paintings and hieroglyphs embedded in stone cliffs.<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:11:00 +0000sorcadmin378319 at http://www.shutterbug.comDigital Scanners & Cameras Are Much Alikehttp://www.shutterbug.com/content/digital-scanners-cameras-are-much-alike
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Thanks to a remark made by Ansel Adams in the late 80’s to an interviewer, regarding his overseeing the printing of one of his books of photographs that was reproduced by scans of his images, Ansel stated he was impressed that digital editing could accomplish adjustments to images he could not make in his own darkroom. For me that was handwriting on the wall, that the future of photography was in digital imaging. During 1989 I began my shift from analogue film photography to digital. It went slowly and haltingly, there weren’t many products that supported digital imaging with computers. But little by little more and more scanners became available, as well as software to edit images with a computer. So I learned mostly from personal experience using scanners and software and talking with a few colleagues on internet forums about how a scanner worked and the beginnings of image editing with a computer.<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:54:00 +0000sorcadmin378318 at http://www.shutterbug.comChips Of Change, Time Demands The Futurehttp://www.shutterbug.com/content/chips-change-time-demands-future
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A newborn child in Egypt was recently given the name Facebook. In the last few weeks, not to mention last year in Iran, there have been popular expressions of unrest. If there were no cell-phones, no internet , no TV, even radio, would the changes we have read about in the news these last few weeks and months seen on TV have occurred as they have? But the news of the world is not my beat, however what is new and how that technology changes our interest and involvement in photography does concern me and will affect everyone’s interest in photography at least slightly or maybe a lot. Every day I read the technology news of the day and it paints a very different scheme of things compared to what was familiar last year,the year before and would have been unrecognizable and unimagined before the year 2000.<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:37:00 +0000sorcadmin378316 at http://www.shutterbug.comOnce Over LCD Displays, Lightlyhttp://www.shutterbug.com/content/once-over-lcd-displays-lightly
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>1. I’m a bit lazy and often asked what LCD display makes and models I recommend. So here they are, all three of them that are under $1000. They all provide a high color range reproducing over 95% of Adobe RGB (1998) colorspace, so you see all of the color in a dSLR Raw image file reproduced in your application, whether iPhoto or Elements, Aperture or Lightroom, Photoshop CS or Corel Paintshop Pro.<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:31:00 +0000sorcadmin378315 at http://www.shutterbug.comIs Today Back To The Futurehttp://www.shutterbug.com/content/today-back-future
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The other day I received an e-mail press news release about a new handheld light meter. I had not seen any news of handheld light meters in some time, so of course I read it. In style and content it was much like what I probably read twenty years ago. But what struck me strangely, now that virtually all cameras are digital, is the fact a digital camera is really just a light measuring device that records the light readings of millions of pixel sites and records them in an image file. Of course that does not preclude the value of a narrow angle spot or an incident light meter, they are useful in measuring the light on and from a subject to make an informed decision on making a photographic exposure with digital or on film. <br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:23:00 +0000sorcadmin378314 at http://www.shutterbug.comComments And Questions Are Good For Everyonehttp://www.shutterbug.com/content/comments-and-questions-are-good-everyone
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>I posted a Blog on December 16, 2010 titled What Is Display Calibration &amp; Profiling? There were a number of comments posted and several were questions. So I asked our blog expert if there was any practical way for me to obtain copies of the comments and the address of the comment source. The answer was no.<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:10:00 +0000sorcadmin378313 at http://www.shutterbug.comCES 2011 Even More Bells And Whistles, Or?http://www.shutterbug.com/content/ces-2011-even-more-bells-and-whistles-or
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Each year starts off these times with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the city of sad faces. Last year even CES was sad faces feeling the aftermath of recession and no one buying much of anything. But in 2011 after Apple dropped some bombs of super sales of iPhones and their new iPad, the rest of the flock was flapping their wings to catch up. But new 3D and what have you TV’s were still languishing, maybe everyone who can afford a big flat-screen TV already has one, and with TV getting worse every year with dumber and dumber ridicule and more ads....<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:13:00 +0000sorcadmin378310 at http://www.shutterbug.comNot Under The Tree?http://www.shutterbug.com/content/not-under-tree
<div class="field field-name-field-promo-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The holiday season this time provided me with some time to concentrate on personal photographs that have been on my mind, but only as ideas. This year I have not had any article projects pending or new products to investigate, so once in a very long time I am doing my own thing. And that has been digging out old film images and making new scans. The goal is to approach the image in ways that correct for weaknesses and frustrations in what the photo was as a film image. Primarily it is much more than just physically scanning the film, but rethinking the image, applying a different sensitivity to what it is, and hopefully producing something both different and the same, but better than the picture I first saw in the viewfinder, and then as an image on film. The final step in this process is to make a test print to see if my on-screen editing actually results in a print that matches my expectations.<br /></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-authors field-type-user-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/users/david-b-brooks-blog">David B. Brooks Blog</a></div></div></div>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:24:00 +0000sorcadmin378308 at http://www.shutterbug.com